I read your other post about the "deadly sins" and Paterson. I thought this remark related some to your point.

"What’s important is for your kids to see you worked them out."

It's about the example they demonstrate. While I agree with some of your premise, I think there are embarrassments and indignities that children suffer when parents make poor choices in their marriage - infidelity being only one of them. Playing it out in the media in lieu of discretion and consideration of their children, is selfish and perhaps narcissistic. Given their positions of power and recognition, they have a different standard to bear than just the average ma and pa who strayed and then dealt with the consequences - more covertly.

Parenting, I believe, involves setting examples such as how to deal with trauma, turmoil and poor choices. And overall that speaks to character of people, married or not.

Right. But Ace was placing the blame on McGreevy, when it was his wife who started the whole thing by pretending she didn't have any inkling that her husband was gay.

I agree that there is an underlying indecency about the whole thing, and it would be great if those two had gone to mediation, rather than court--especially given their public positions and their obligations as parents.